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Adding a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app to Quicklaunch

Modified on: Fri, 12 Oct, 2018 at 9:43 AM

This guide explains how to add any UWP app as a Quicklaunch Action Tile. Some UWP apps are already in our catalogue, please check the catalogue for your desired application before attempting to follow this guide.

Contents

1) Finding UWP Location

2) Custom Action Tile in Quicklaunch Settings

1) Finding UWP Location

Create a folder on the C: Drive of your computer called "FindUWP".

Download the attached file and save it to the folder you created (C:\FindUWP)

Open the Windows Start Menu, Type in "PowerShell". Right click and Run as Administrator.

This will launch a Windows PowerShell Session as an administrator. Enter the text on the following line and hit Enter:

Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

Enter the letter "Y" and hit Enter.

Next, Enter the text on the following line and hit enter:

cd C:\FindUWP

Finally, we will run the script you downloaded earlier. Enter the text in the following line and hit Enter:

.\Show-UwpApps.ps1

Enter the letter "R" and hit Enter:

The "Show-UwpApps.ps1" script will run and show a list of all installed UWP apps in the Windows PowerShell window. Read through the list and find the desired UWP application. Copy the line of text beginning with the work "shell". We'll use The Khan Academy UWP as an example.

Paste the copied line into a Document for use later. The copied text for this example is shown below:

NOTE: After the desired UWP apps have been added to Quicklaunch and confirmed to be working, it may be important to set PowerShell Execution Policies back to "Restricted." To do so copy the following command into Windows PowerShell and select Enter: